Disclaimer: I don't own or make money off of the show Beyblade or its characters… I am simply borrowing them to amuse myself…

Warnings: Yaoi (boy x boy love), OOCness...

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Habits – Feet

"Ian, let me have some tomato sauce!"

"Get lost! You've already used up half the bottle!"

Tala resisted the urge to sigh from his place opposite his two bickering friends, sharing a look of silent suffering with a fairly amused Spencer. Kai only continued to eat his pancakes quietly, his scarlet eyes directed down towards his plate. His eyes jerked up and into a glare when Bryan accidentally knocked Kai's hand into the honey on top of his breakfast.

Tala resisted the urge to rub at his temples as Kai insulted Bryan and the man threw a retort back in return; it was the usual breakfast in the Blitzkrieg Boys' house.

"You're turn to clean up isn't Ian?" Spencer said, a small amused smirk appearing on his face as Ian's cackles petered out into silence almost immediately.

He grinned cheekily, "Can't. Got school." Ian rushed from the room. "Don't throw out my science assignment! It's on the window sill!" Tala glanced up from his newspaper to stare at the window above the sink, his right eye twitching violently when he sighted a green and white and hairy something on the window's sill. His mouth gaped open to yell out to Ian and ask him exactly what it was, or what it had been. But Ian was out of the house before he could.

He turned his attention from the rotting food, back to the occupants of the table. Bryan and Kai seemed to have given up trying to out insult the other and had returned to their breakfast. Kai was silent again, while Bryan was fighting with the red sauce bottle, thrusting it towards his plate in an effort to gain at least a little bit of what he craved. He gave up a moment later as Spencer stood, carrying his and Ian's plate as Bryan lifted and offered his own to him. Spencer didn't hesitate in eating the left over roll and sausage on Bryan's plate before placing it on his own.

"We'll be getting the groceries now." Bryan said as he headed out, Spencer right behind him. Tala smiled slightly as he heard Spencer's quiet teasing and Bryan's indignant huff just before the door was slammed shut and proceeded to drain the last little bit of coffee from his blue and white polka dotted mug.

He heard Kai sigh and looked up to see him with a peaceful and almost content as he finished off the last little bit of his breakfast. Tala watched as Kai placed his own plate on the sink, swiftly bending down to peck Tala's lips as he past him on his way to the living room. For a moment, Tala couldn't help the small smile that made its way to his lips.

Tala was more than happy to stay seated in the sun, gazing out the window with his titled to one side as the sun's glare became suddenly brighter. He sighed contently at its warmth. Soon, Tala felt himself becoming restless. He was used to the frigid weather of Russia not the pleasant weather Japan received and he soon found himself having the need to hide away from the sun.

He retreated to the living room, looking around with surprise as he realised Kai wasn't in there like he first thought he'd be. Tala took a seat in his favourite armchair, reaching to his left to snag a book from off the mahogany shelf level with his eyes. He drew one ankle up to rest on his opposite knee, settling into the chair as he flicked open the book and began to read.

He'd started it a few months ago, but hadn't been able to make any head way with the seemingly constant noise and accidents happening within and around his new home. Kai seemed to keep him busy as well. He hardly took any notice as Kai practically crept into the room and settled himself onto the couch on the opposite side of the room.

They started out as small clipping sounds that Tala could barely hear. Tala flicked another page, not bothering to look up when he heard another, louder clip, then another and another.

Clip. Clip. Clip.

Tala glanced up from his book, a bit peeved that his reading had been disturbed, looking around before his cerulean gaze rested upon Kai's hunched form.

At any other time Tala would have laughed and smirked at the look of pure determination on his boyfriend's now angular face as he carefully raised the scissors to another of his toes and slowly clipped off a corner of the nail there. Kai's red gaze, usually so cold and penertrating were scrunched slightly as his usual frown was replaced by slightly open lips with the small tip of his tongue poking out in Kai's usual face of concentration… When it came to his looks and presentation.

Tala flinched as another nail went flying off into some unknown direction, followed by another only moments later. The red head sighed, "What day is it?"

"Thursday." Kai's eyes lifted from his almost dainty toes to Tala, before he turned his attention to his feet again. "Why?"

Tala sighed and closed his book, before he slid it onto the shelf it had come from. Kai always did his feet on Thursday. "Nevermind."

Tala didn't feel like starting a fight today and decided to stay quiet. Kai would be finished in another hour anyway. For some reason Kai took extra care and pride in his feet and Tala couldn't whine or whinge about it when it put Kai in a good mood, one that usually left them both sated and satified before the others returned home from where ever they had disappeared too.

He rested his head on the palm of his hand, watching as Kai frowned and wiggled his toes, smiling slightly to himself as he moved onto his other foot. He had to admit Kai was … almost charming when he looked down with pride at his feet, before working on his finger nails – both broken and rough - for a minute and began putting the scissors a way. No matter how disgusting the habit was when he was made to clean the couch off before he sat on it.

Kai glanced up again, placing his scissors – or 'clippers' as he called them – on the table beside the couch, "You are going to come over here aren't you?"

Tala didn't hesitate at all and was quick to sit beside Kai and pull him into his lap. Kai frowned as Tala smirked and kissed his lips. Really... Who would want to read a book when they had Kai waiting for them?

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Woffy: Thanks for the reviews for the previous chapter! This drabbly/oneshot thing was brought on by my brother and mother who are sitting beside me still doing their toenails…Oh and if you have an idea for one of these, don't be afraid to let me know!